Food

Spiced Chocolate Pecan Pie

From Sainsbury’s A chocolate pud as featured in Sainsbury’s Magazine. Serves: 8 Preparation time: 20 Minutes Cooking time: 60 Minutes   Ingredients 1 x 375g...

Dirty Martini

Dirty Martini is a classic cocktail with a hint sharpness from brine. Ingredients 70ml/2fl oz gin 1 tbsp dry vermouth 2 tbsp olive brine 1...

Boozy Christmas Pudding

From Sainsbury’s   A pudding that’s jam packed with fruit and liquor and full of rich festive flavour.   Serves: 8 Preparation time: 30 Minutes...

Cinnamon Sour Cocktail Recipe

Cinnamon Sour is an exotic and simple cocktail and ideal for winter. Try flavoured vodka with this one too! Ingredients 1½ Parts Vodka ¾ Part...

Cherry Mince Pies

From Sainsbury’s Mince pies topped with meringue and marachino cherries   Serves: 12 Preparation time: 20 Minutes Cooking time: 23 Minutes   Ingredients 125g shortcrust...

Hakushika Sake Blossom Cocktail

Hakushika offer another delicious and simple cocktail – Sake Blossom. Perfect for the end of winter and early spring. Glass: Glass goblet Garnish: Improvise Ingredients:...

Christmas Lebkuchen – recipe

This is one of the most quintessentially Christmassy cookies. They are rich, spicy and iconic, being so easily cut and decorated. Here is a version...

Carob Chip Cookies

From Sainsbury’s Sweet biscuits with a chocolate topping.   Serves: makes 20 Preparation time: 15 Minutes Cooking time: 20 Minutes   Ingredients 75g margarine 50g...

Onikoroshi Honjozo Sake – drinks review

Founded around 1720 in Takayama Hida in Japan, Oita Shuzo brewery has been producing sake ever since. This is a beautiful region with several noteworthy...

Teacher’s Hot Toddy

Ingredients: 50ml Teacher’s Whisky 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar Cardamom Cinnamon The juice of 2 wedges of lemon The juice of 1 wedge of orange 37.5ml...

White Chocolate Brownies (blondies)

From BBC Food   Ingredients For the brownies 225g/8oz caster sugar 4 free-range eggs 225g/8oz butter, melted, plus extra for greasing 150g/5½oz plain flour, sifted...

Donner & Spritzen

Guinness, prosecco and Schweppes Soda Water? Not an obvious mix. Then again, you haven’t tried it yet. Refreshingly new. Refreshingly delicious. It’s Donner & Spritzen....

Delicious Christmas Cake

From Sainsbury’s Creating this beautiful cake isn’t as hard as you may think. The secret is choosing the right ingredients…   Serves: 16 Preparation time:...

Muesli Bread

From Sainsbury’s A bread enriched with sugar, butter and muesli, ideal served warm. Serves: 8 Preparation time: 50 Minutes Cooking time: 30 Minutes   Ingredients...

Honeydew Green Tea

From Whole Foods Market   Serves 8 to 10   This refreshing summer cooler is also tasty made with other sweet, ripe melons in season,...

Southwestern Couscous Salad

From Whole Foods Market   Serves 8 A quick, colorful summer side for a barbeque or Cinco de Mayo (add diced jalapeño). It travels well...

Orange & Grapefruit Cocktail recipe

Orange and Grapefruit is a citrus-based cocktail with the spirit being aromatic tequila. If this isn’t sweet enough then use an extra 1/2oz of  simple...

Sautéed Caramelised Fennel

From BBC Food   Ingredients 4 medium-sized heads fennel 25g/1oz butter 1 rounded tsp granulated sugar 275ml/10fl oz medium cider 55ml/2fl oz cider vinegar salt...

Christmas Fruit Punch

From Morrisons   A Christmas classic. Try this fruity, rich and alcohol-free merry mix.   Ingredients 75ml ‘The Best’ Clementine Juice 75ml cranberry juice 50ml...